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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist for Chicago Tribune Charged With Espionage in Sudan
COX.Net AP Story ^
| CARLA K. JOHNSON
Posted on 08/26/2006 3:19:02 PM PDT by SandRat
CHICAGO -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage and other crimes.
Paul Salopek, 44, was charged in a 40-minute hearing with espionage, passing information illegally and writing "false news," the Tribune reported on its Web site. His driver and interpreter, both Chadian nationals, faced the same charges.
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"He had no agenda other than to fairly and accurately report on the region," Johns said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: charged; chicago; espionage; journalist; prizewinning; pulitzer; sudan; tribune
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:19:06 PM PDT
by
SandRat
To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
I don't know how to call this one......
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:19:37 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:22:14 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: onyx
Yes, it is very frightening. The Truth is a scary thing to many.
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:22:50 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: SandRat
Islamics running the country don't want the truth of what they're doing to get out?
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:23:26 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: SandRat
The NYT should be charged with espionage in this country. What's the hold up?
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:30:50 PM PDT
by
frankjr
To: SandRat
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:37:00 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
To: SandRat
He also entered the country without a visa. There's more at the Chicago Tribune site...
Salopek, who has extensive experience reporting from Africa, had been traveling in Chad, near the Sudanese border. When arrested, Salopek was carrying two U.S. passports--a legal practice, common among journalists and other frequent travelers who require multiple visas--and satellite maps of the conflict zone in Darfur, printed from public Web sites. According to sources, Sudanese officials view the passports and maps as evidence of espionage.
http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/news.jsp?key=13547
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:40:16 PM PDT
by
RedRover
(Defeat Murthawi! Support Diana Irey at www.irey.com.)
To: SandRat
Born in California raised in Mexico. That would make him a US citizen correct?
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:40:42 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: bboop
In times of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
That's the best I can recollect something George Orwell wrote.
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:43:10 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: RedRover
How would I qualify for more than one passport?
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:46:26 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
To: Thebaddog
Apparently the elite MSM has access to multiple passports. Your just a peon.
:)
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:51:07 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
Is it not the case that a person would be carrying two passports to be passing as not American, for instance? Would the privileged class call another government and ask for one openly, or would they use forged documents?
And then I suppose that if the privileged type crossed the fellows that gave him his second passport, he would have the problem that he is in now.
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:56:27 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
To: frankjr
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posted on
08/26/2006 3:58:40 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
To: Thebaddog
Yeah, the sarcasm tag should have been used.
:)
If this guy is a US citizen should he be defended?(by the US government)
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:01:04 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: SandRat
Don't worry I'm sure Kofi Annan and the UN will come to his rescue any century now !!!
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:03:41 PM PDT
by
Obie Wan
To: Thebaddog
If you misplace your passport, get a replacement & then find your old one, you'd have two. I think having more than one is problematic, if they have any false information on them. If you were going to an area where a group like Hezbollah is gonna take your passport from you, cuz you're a reporter, having a second one might be a smart move.
To: SandRat
. . .writing "false news"
They may have a point there. But I pray for his safety.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:13:47 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: GoLightly
One for travel to Israel and one to travel in muslim countries where they won't let you in with an Israeli visa in your passport. They probably found the one with the Israeli stamp, and thus consider him a 'Zionist spy'.
I'm going to side with the msm against TROP on this one.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:19:57 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: GoLightly; PAR35
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:24:24 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
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